there was an athenian statesman named solon who heard one of sappho's poems being recited and asked someone to teach it to him "so [he] could learn it and then die" and i'd just like to say that's exactly how i feel when i read a really good poem

if all the people in the tags going "THEE solon?" are referring to 7th-6th century bc athenian statesman and leader of political reform then yes, this is solon thee athenian

protip when you need to buy something online directly from the brand's website you should put it in your cart, enter your email etc in the check-out process, and close the window right before you click purchase. sooner rather than later they will send you an email with a discount/promo. and if you do it again they MIGHT send you a bigger discount this one is a crapshoot but worth a try if you have the time. capitalism chicken

This is why an increasing number of libraries are adding a requirement to their challenge policies that challengers must be residents of their service area.

obsessed with how working with middle schoolers is how they're all soooo cool and everything is sooooo lame but the second you introduce a stuffed animal as a new student who "doesn't know anything about math and wants to learn but is too scared to do it alone" one of them says it's a girl, calls her Baby T, this spreads as fact until everyone is using the same name, and even though Baby T lives in the math classroom they convinced me to take her with us to the park because she is a student

ok this is a poignant visual metaphor tho

This is your reminder that if life keeps throwing you lemons you are not morally obligated to make lemonade from them. You can duck, or catch them in a trash can, or get a baseball bat and slam those fuckers into the stratosphere.

This is a really poignant illustration of the seductive nature of glorifying war but that is a LOOK and she is SERVING it

I've seen Death depicted as a card dealer or other sort of gambler, a guy in a suit, a farmer, a robed apparition, and any other number of things, but this? This has to be the best Death I've seen yet. An old seductress saying "hey kid, don't you wanna die in a trench for a government that doesn't give a fuck about you, just like your dear old dad?" This goes hard as fuck.

ive said it before and will say it again but if you’re trans and a bit into your transition and suddenly become super vain, obsessed with your looks and think you’re fucking hot? GOOD. keep it up

idc if vanity is annoying idc if ppl think its bad. you deserve to feel like you’re the hottest person on the planet, especially in this evil fucking world that hates the way we express beauty. be fucking obsessed with yourself, you’ve earned it

the funniest dynamc between my boyfriend and i is the chef/baker divide runs so deep. experimentally my boyfriend is a genius with figuring out what flavor profiles will not just taste good together but also will be enjoyed by the specific audience he is cooking for. a recipe is not a guidebook so much as a suggestion and he will frankenstein ideas together to get exactly what he wants to happen. he also didnt know that sugar will not work properly if you dont mix it with the wet ingredients in banana bread and when i asked 'why didnt you do it in the order of the recipe' he said 'i didnt really think it mattered'. autistically i exploded his head in my mind

you'll never be punk yr clothes are from shein and yr makeup is from tiktok

you know there actually is a meaningful difference between 'men's' and 'women's' deodorant beyond the selection of scents. 'mens' plays better with pit hair and doesn't pill up in it and 'womens' tends to have a more powdery finish to help prevent chafing. so really the two genders are actually hairy and bald.

realizing this was such a paradigm shift for me and i have to wonder what other "uselessly" gendered products are like this, where they actually are different in a way that would be useful to consumers but some marketing department decided instead of just saying what the difference is, to prescribe which you need based on the most arbitrary metric, so nebulous that what it even means varies from person to person. as if they think you're too dumb to look at "anti-chafing powder formula" and "lightweight gel formula" and decide for yourself which one would work best.